Guide finger for machines for coating webs with adhesives



HESIVES Jan. 19, 1932. A. M. BECKER GUIDE FINGER FOR MACHINES FOR COATING WEBS WITH AD Filed May 17, 1929 lm 6 L h I. Hi um. I flugusfMBec/rer 7 ATTORNEY Patented Jan. 19, 1932 being un urrsn srrss er This invention'relates to anew and improved guide fin adhesives in li web or shee 5 design isp type of ma Patent No. 1 and N 0. 1A9 which refere 10 lar application of my ject of my inve'ntionis to provide it is provided with-a slot 8, with semi cirers which are easily removable, cular topto conform to the cross section of isturbing any working parts of the the rod 7, and permit thereby-saving the idle fingers from in a vertical plane, being suiiiciently wide to necessarily in contact with the adheassure a good seat on slve material on the surface of the drum.

Another object of my invention is to pro-' is equipped with a fixed dowel pin 10 and de an economical arrangement for the conthreaded hole 11, located to correspond with tact edge, subject to wear, by providing a dethe holes 12, in the blade 13. The blade itself tachable blade, whereby a long useful-life is is in the form of a rhombus, made of thin Fig. 2 is a top view of the same.

A UGUST M. BECKER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Application filed May 17, 1929. Serial No. 363,816.

The guide finger 6, i

present'invention. as shown in Fig. 3. F0

guide finger has its fr T OF Fl CE GUIDE FIN GER FOR MACHINES FOR COATING WEBS WITH ADHESIVES After passing under the guide plates 5, ger for machines for coating I the coated web 4, is moved onto a series of quid form tothe surface of a inclined. swinging guide fingers 6, which e of material and this improved freely swing in a vertical plane on the rod 7. articularly well adapted to the The guide fingers are shown in my U. S. Letters intervals along the length of the drum, and ,435,197 dated November 14, 1922 any number of them m 3,061 dated May 6, 1924 and to tion, as desired.

nce may be had for the particuarranged at suitable ay be placed in operas formed in the shape 1' mounting on the rod a swinging movement the said rod 7. The ee end 9, beveled and material, to provide a minimum of contact of With these objects in view, which will fully surface between the [s appear as the invention is described, it being that there is little chance of much of the adunderstood, that many changes may be made hesive being retained in the size, shape and proportion of the parts having four equal sid as more fully pointed out in. the claim, after The above mentioned being set forth in the description and illusoated on the longer diagonal, equally distant trations accompanying the same, without defrom the shorter diag parting from the spirit of the invention.

In the accom lustrated my in Fig. 1 is a cross sec surface, being worn so comes exactly in place ame and the web, so

by the guide fingers; es lettered a, b, a, (Z. two holes 12, are loonal, thereby making it possible the use of any side of the rhompanying drawings I have ilbus, to be in contact with the adhesive on the vention, and in the same: drum.

tion ofamachine of this Consider first the side a, as the working as to become inoperative, by removing the screw 14, and turning Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the guide finger blade 13, around the longer diagonal, side 6, without the detachable blade.-

Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the blade.

of the previous location of side a, and thereby a new working F ig. 5 is a top view of the guide finger asedge is provided, the blade 13, being held in sembled with the blade. place by screw 14, and fixed dowel pin 10.

Referring to the drawings, 1 indicates a re- The same way sides 0, and 0?, provide two more ceptacle or tank for holding the adhesive maworking edges, resulting in a very economical terial 2, which is kept in a warm condition. A long life of blades. rotary adhesive-distributing drum or cylin der 3 is mounted in the tank, to carry the ad- I claim and desire to secure by Letters Pathesive upward in a thin coating and transfer cut is: the adhesive in a layer to the underside of the web or sheet of material 4, which is moved with a rotating drum transversely across the upper surface of the of pivoted blade holders, means permitting drum in close contact therewith for this purremoval of each blade holder and blade indi- Having thus described my invention, what In an adhesive coating machine provided and with a plurality means comprising an open slot at one end of each blade holder for detachably engaging with a pivot on said machine and said blade holders being also provided With means for removably attaching blades thereto.

In testimony whereof I aflix signature.

AUGUST M. BECKER. 

